Blimey, Buffoon Berlusconi's Bad

[Jan Klimkowski]

Berlusconi balderdash and incoherent ramblings to the newspaper Il Foglio:

'An arrogant elite'

Extracts from Silvio Berlusconi's interview with the daily Il Foglio:

"Sometimes I, like everyone, am a sinner. But the moralising justice that is brandished at me is to 'go beyond' me ... to put into a [position of] power, by means of an anti-juridical use of the law and legality, the ideas of culture and civilisation of an elite that considers itself to be without sin. It is scandalous. It is illiberalism in its pure form. Those who preach a republic of virtue, using Jacobin and puritan language, have in mind an authoritarian democracy: the opposite of a system founded on freedom ... [they maintain that Italy] must be freed of Berlusconi, bypassing the electoral will of the Italians who, according to this arrogant and anti-democratic elite, are all idiots.

"So an 'extra-parliamentary' initiative is needed to destroy the political sovereignty that the people are not worthy of exercising. There is a widespread awareness of a soft coup d'etat [in the making]."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb...napolitano

Two days ago, we had Mubarak delivering stream-of-consciousness shite. Now Silvio....

And what is Il Foglio?

According to wiki:

Il Foglio is an Italian centre-right newspaper, with circulation of about 13,000 copies per day. It was founded in 1996 by the Italian journalist and politician Giuliano Ferrara, after he left as editor of the magazine Panorama.

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PoliticsAnglo-American conservatism can roughly be considered its closest political position, especially the policies of the Bush administration. It strongly backed the American intervention against Taliban in 2001 and the war in Iraq in 2003. In Italy it promulgates a neo-conservative line. It features editorials inspired by American newspapers, especially the Wall Street Journal.

In the last five years Il Foglio has strongly supported the Catholic Church and especially Pope Benedict XVI on topics like bioethics and the battle against relativism. It has a pro-Israeli stance.

Il Foglio can also be considered pro-free market in Economics.

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OwnershipIt has often been asked if "Il Foglio" is owned by Silvio Berlusconi. As of April 23, 2006, Giuliano Ferrara declared to the Report Italian news television show (within the episode "Il finanziamento quotidiano" di Bernardo Iovene), that the newspaper ownership was shared by:

Veronica Lario (Berlusconi's wife), 38%
Sergio Zuncheddu (Sardinian builder and owner of the largest daily newspaper of Sardinia, l'Unione Sarda, and of some regional television broadcasting companies, Videolina and Tele Costa Smeralda), 20% to 25%
Denis Verdini (National coordinator of the PDL), 15%
Giuliano Ferrara, 10%
Luca Colasanto, 10%

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_Foglio